Many Java applications started from the command line take arguments to control their behavior. These arguments are available in the string array argument passed into the application’s static ...

Writing code to parse command line arguments is still necessary sometimes. When you need to examine command line arguments, see how and why you should use your open source Java toolkit and use ...

Does anybody know of an elegant implementation of a command-line parser written in Java? The one I'm using (JavaPopt can't match multiple arguments with the same flag (e.g. -I/home/yak/foo -I/home ...

In this blog entry, I will look at using the Apache Commons CLI library, but there are numerous other choices such as args4j, TE-Code command line parsing, CLAJR (Command-Line Arguments with Java ...

Some programs provide the ability to add arguments when executing it in order to change a particular behavior or modify how the program operates. As an example lets look at the command line ...